jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes:
M. V. bored_to_death85 at yahoo.com writes:
recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have
swap partition for my server, and having swap partition could
make my server unstable.
I think your FB expert was up to something. I bet he spoke out
of experience.
Swapping by itself can decrease system reliability due to possible
data corruption on swap disk or during two-way transfers, with
subsequent incorrect RAM and machine crash.
But, swapping is also a symptom, not a problem.
It is never a good idea to let it get to that point.
...
http://blog.jcole.us/2010/09/28/mysql-swap-insanity-and-the-numa-architecture/
Very interesting point.
- do you think this could hurt my server's stability too? (most of its work is
a noticeable amount of packet-forwarding, and other network services, like
firewall, dhcp server, ntp server, etc)
- if so, in what conditions? can I do something to prevent this? or should I
just get rid of the swap partition?
- does swap partition do any good for me at all? I mean if we even suppose
nothing bad happens because of it, is it worth risking to keep it?
thank you.
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